How the Premier League is spoiling family life and the education of young supporters)

By Menace The League in England & Wales was always a Saturday 3.00 pm match.  There was the occasional deviation to a weekday for cup matches but most schedules allowed for the young to accompany their parents to a game without disruption to their education. The TV impact on Football has been the worst for …

Ripping the heart out of the Arsenal midfield

. By Tim Charlesworth A season of gambles All managers have to take risks with the way that they put their squad together.  It is not possible to have two or three world class players for every position.  As well as being prohibitively expensive, world class players will not tolerate long periods on the bench. …

Seven new players coming in, one more leaving as Arsenal’s transfers hot up.

By Sir Hardly Anyone Well, it has been another amazingly over-the-top week for what we are now learning to call the Early Stage Concrete Hacks, the gentlemen of the press whose arrested intellectual development allows them to develop a whole range of extraordinary tales about who is coming to Arsenal this summer and who is …